Dr Nicky Busch

Biography

Dr Nicky Busch is a lecturer at Birkbeck, the University of London; NYU in London; and Richmond, the American University in London. Her research looks at migration and gendered labour markets. She has published a number of journal articles and book chapters on these subjects. Between 2012 and 2014 she was working with Dr Rosie Cox on the ESRC-funded project ‘Au Pairing After the Au Pair Scheme: New Migration Rules and Childcare in Private Homes in the UK’ at Birkbeck, University of London. She is currently working on a monograph based on the findings from this project to be published by Zed Books in 2017.

Publications

Books

Cox, R and Busch, N (in preparation) As an Equal? Au Pairing in the Twenty First Century, Zed Books.

Refereed journal articles

Cox, R and Busch, N (2016) “’This is the life I want’: Au pairs’ perceptions of life in the global city”, Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Busch, N (2014) Au pairs within a global political economy of care: outcomes of a deregulated childcare market and au pair policy vacuum in the UK, Papers in Political Economy/ La revue Interventions économiques.

Busch, N (2012) The employment of migrant nannies in the UK: negotiating social class in an open market for commoditised in-home care, Social and Cultural Geography. DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2012.736528.